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H. A. SEYMOURE.

PAPER FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JULYZ], 1913. RENEWED FEB. :2, 1915.

1,1 955 1 3 Patented Aug. 22, 1916.

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Horace A. Seymoure. MM @f m Wye/Jaw ATTORNEY.

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PAPER-FASTENEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. M6.

Application filed July 21, 1913, Serial No. 780,183. Renewed February 12, 191E. Serial No. 78,070.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE A. SEYMOURE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper- Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a book binder, particularly relating to that class of devices for temporarily fastening together the papers forming a file of papers. These papers are at present usually connected by means of a metal fastener, which frequently cut the papers and even where a cord or wire is passed through the papers and the ends are knotted together, a bulky, unattractive, device is formed which is tied with much difficulty and is quite liable to become untied.

provide a simple inexpensive paper fastener or book binder, which can be readily inserted through the papers or books of different thicknesses and which can be quickly and securely locked in position.

A further object is to provide a device of the above identified character, which will form in connection with the united parts thereof, a receptacle for a sealing substance to prevent the mutilation of the file or book without detecting the same.

The various other objects of the invention will be in part obvious and in part more fully set forth in the following description of a physical embodiment of the invention which also discloses various new and novel features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth. and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings wherein is shown one of the various possible embodiments of the invention, Figure 1 is a broken view of a preferred embodiment of the in vention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view through the fastening tube and showing the tine in its position about to enter the opening in the tube; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a book with my binder in position fastening the papers in position, and Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the binder in loosened position to freely open the book.

One of the objects of the invention is to .Iieferring to the drawings there is shown a file of paper or a book 1, having a pair of preformed apertures or eyes 2, extending therethrough adjacent one edge. Passing through each of the apertures and across one side of the book is a flexible member 3, such as a shoe string, the ends of which are brought together on the opposite side of the book. One end of the member 3 has a fastener a suitably affixed thereto and forming a prolongation thereof and preferably of a cross sectional area to be conveniently threaded through the eyes 2 now usually made in office stationery. For convenience in manufacture this fastener is tubular and preferably stamped from sheet metal. T he free end is shown to have a rounded pointed nose 5, in the rear portion of which and in advance of the end of the member 3 is an opening 6 extending through the top thereof, the portion of metal cut away to form this opening being bent down to form an in cline 7 adapted to guide the opposite end of the member 3 through the opening and forming the bottom of a sealing wax containing receptacle. In advance of the open ing and forming a continuation thereof is a longitudinal V shaped notch 8 having its closed end adjacent the end of the nose 5.

The flexible member 3 may be as long as desired and for the purpose of stiffening the end opposite the fastener may have a tine 9 defining this end so that this end may resemble a shoe-string having a metal tip.

In operation one or both ends may be threaded through the eyes in the paper and the tine 9 inserted in the fastener as shown in Fig. 2 the tine being guided by the incline 7 through the opening 6 until the desired tension is placed on the device, then the member 3 is drawn into the notch S as far as possible binding the member between the sides of the notch.

Should it be desired to open the book flat as shown in Fig. .t it is merely necessary to loosen the member 3 from its position in the notch, or should it be desired to abst not one of the papers, the portion of the book above said paper may be threaded off first one of the ends of the member 3 and after one side of the desired paper is withdrawn, the end may be reinserted through this pon tion of the book and then the paper may be threaded off the other end of the memher, in this way the book is always held together.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A book binder comprising a flexible member adapted to be threaded through preformed apertures in the book, a fastening tube secured to one end, said tube having an opening extending through the side thereof and a notch extending from said opening in the direction toward the free end of the tube and adapted to engage said flexible member to hold the same, and a tine fastened to the other end of said member and adapted to thread the flexible member through said opening.

2. A book binder comprising a flexible member adapted to be threaded through preformed apertures in the book, a fastening tube secured to one end, said tube having an opening extending through the side thereof and a notch extending from said opening in the direction toward the free end of the tube and adapted to engage said flexible member to hold the same, a tine fastened to the other end of said member and adapted to thread the flexible member through said opening, and means adjacent said open ing for guiding said tine in its threading movement through said opening.

3. In a book binder, a means for temporarily engaging a flexible binding thread comprising a member having a closed substantially V-shape notch therein adapted to have said member drawn therein toward the small end of said notch to bind the member, and means for guiding said thread transversely through said notch.

4. In a book binder, a flexible member having an open ended fastener affixed to one end thereof, said fastener having also an opening in the side thereof adapted to have the other end of the member threaded therethrough from said open end said fas tener having a pocket adjacent said opening adapted to contain a particle of sealing wax to hold said member in said openin 5. A flexible member terminating in a fastening element comprising a tubular memher having an opening extending through the walls thereof oppositely disposed sides of a portion of said opening being convergent.

6. An integral fastening element comprising a member containing aholding means fixed relative to the member and an inclined guiding means for directing a coacting fastening member into operative position to be engaged by said holding means.

7 The combination with a tying member, of a tube of substantially uniform diameter forming a continuation of one end of said member, the portion of the tube beyond said end having means therein for maintaining a portion intermediate the length of a coacting member in alinement with said end which is within the tube.

8. An integral tubular member having an open end and a V-shaped notch in the side thereof and having means adjacent the end opposite the open end for fastening said member to a flexible binding member, and an incline extending angularly across the bore of said member adjacent said notch and facing said open end thereby to guide coacting binding members into said notch from said open end.

9. A binding device comprising a flexible member, circular in cross-section and a cylindrical member, one end of the flexible member being clamped rigidly within one end of the cylindrical member and the other end of the flexible member adapted to be passed loosely through the other end of the cylindrical member, a portion of the loose end being positioned within the cylindrical member adjacent said rigidly clamped end, and said cylindrical member having means lying substantially within the outline of the cylindrical member serving to secure the loose end of the flexible member to the cylindrical member.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

HORACE SEYMOURE.

Witnesses:

WV. S. ORTON, DOROTHY F. DAMELS.

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